National Prescribing Centre (NPC) 7 Sep 2010

• MeReC Monthly Number 29
  
• MeReC Extra No. 46

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NPCi Blog 7 Sep 2010

• MeReC Stop Press: Shifting views on lipid lowering therapy
  
• MeReC Rapid Review: Calcium supplements without vitamin D may increase the risk of MI
  
• On the Horizon Stop Press: Prolonged-release fampridine improves measures of walking in some patients with multiple sclerosis
  
• Antibiotic prescribing contributes to bacterial resistance in individual patients

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BMJ 7 Sep 2010

• Delivering the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cost effectiveness analysis
  
  
• Research: Nurse led interventions to improve control of blood pressure in people with hypertension: systematic review and meta-analysis

• News: GPs should not profit personally from NHS reforms, say doctors' leaders
  
• Health White Paper : New kids on the block

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Clinical Knowledge Summaries (PRODIGY) / SCHIN 7 Sep 2010

• Anaphylaxis (2)
  
• Breast cancer
  
• Missed contraceptive pills
  
• Overview of CKS
  
• Red eye (2)
  
• Reducing antibiotic prescribing
  
• Smoking cessation

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Department of Health (DH) 7 Sep 2010

• Annual independent review of the UK Government's global health strategy

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 7 Sep 2010

• FDA Drug Safety Communication: Ongoing Safety Review of Stalevo (a combination of carbidopa/levodopa and entacapone) and possible increased cardiovascular risk

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National electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM) 7 Sep 2010

• NHS organisations to be named in report into the uptake of NICE-approved drugs on the NHS
  
• Liberating the NHS? Analysis and questions on the white paper
  
• NPSA: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigation tools and guidance
  
• Cost-effectiveness analysis and efficient use of the pharmaceutical budget: the key role of clinical pharmacologists
  
• Pharmacoeconomics: NICE's approach to decision-making
  
• Generic and therapeutic substitutions in the UK: are they a good thing?
  
• NICE Bites -- August 2010; Alcohol-use disorders & Bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia
  
• HSJ survey finds GP consortia overspent on commissioning budgets in 2009/10

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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) 7 Sep 2010

• Multiple myeloma (first line) - bortezomib and thalidomide: final appraisal determination
  

• Dronedarone for the treatment of non-permanent atrial fibrillation
  
• Imatinib for the adjuvant treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumours
  
• Etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis
  
• Rheumatoid arthritis - drugs for treatment after failure of a TNF inhibitor (Adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, rituximab and abatacept)
  
• Tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis

• Chronic heart failure: management of chronic heart failure in adults in primary and secondary care
  
• The management of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy
  
• Management of transient loss of consciousness in adults

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Prescription Pricing Division, NHSBSA (PPD) 7 Sep 2010

• Prescribing Review - 'April - June 2010 Gastro-intestinal'
  
• August 2010 Drugs for Dyspepsia - Prescribing guidance and discussion points

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